Written after the deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne, she found it a struggle to finish and in her portraits of Shirley Keeldar and Caroline Helstone Charlotte Bronte poured out her feelings for her dead sisters....
The Shooting Party wraps a story of concealed love and fatal jealousy into a classic murder mystery. When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called...
Ex-NYPD detective Dave Gurney is supposed to be retired. But people with problems keep knocking on his door. Like the police, for instance, who are baffled by a gruesome murder they just can`t seem to solve. A young...
George Eliot`s own favourite novel centres on Silas Marner, the linen weaver of Raveloe, a village on the brink of industrialization. Once he was a respected member of a narrow congregation, but the events that took...
George Eliot`s own favourite novel centres on Silas Marner, the linen weaver of Raveloe, a village on the brink of industrialization. Once he was a respected member of a narrow congregation, but the events that took...
This is a landmark in American literature, presented in its complete and unexpurgated version. Dreiser`s unsparing story of a country girl`s rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man marked the beginning of the...
Six Easy Pieces: Fundamentals of Physics Explained
An outstanding communicator, Richard P. Feynman inspired a generation of students with his energetic, unorthodox style of teaching. Drawn from his celebrated and landmark text Lectures on Physics, Six Easy Pieces...
Skeleton Crew. Команда скелетов
Twenty-two stories from the "wildly imaginative" #1 Bestselling Author In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could A supermarket becomes the place where humanity...
Turgenev`s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving...
Skin and other Stories. Кожа и другие рассказы
This book features a collection of Roald Dahl`s extraordinary short stories, specially chosen for teenagers by Wendy Cooling. The thirteen stories have been taken from "The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl",...
‘Did you run across that queer sort of legend about a wild goose? It was all up and down the beaches. You know how those things spring up. Some of the men I brought back were talking about it. It was supposed to have...
There`s the gambler who collects little fingers from there`s the lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of not to mention the man who has made a machine that can hear grass Roald Dahl`s particular brand of...
Something Fresh. A Blandings Story
The one thing that could be expected to disturb the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of imposters. Blandings has imposters like other houses have mice. On this particular occasion there are two of...
\'I tell you I have written a great book ... Read my novel, it is a great novel,\' Lawrence declared shortly before Sons and Lovers was published in 1913. Drawing on his own childhood and adolescence, Lawrence...
Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
This title is presented in quick, easy-to-use and a perfect size to fit in your pocket. It is organized by subjects such as everyday phrases, hotels, travelling around and includes an extensive menu section. It uses a...
Speaking with the Angel is a sparkling collection of all-new, original stories by twelve of today`s most exciting, innovative and entertaining writers brought together by Nick Hornby in aid of Treehouse, a charity...
